Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Call me Ted Kaczynski

I had to write a manifesto for my avant garde lit class, so this is what I wrote. There's something lost in the whole blogging process, because there are tons of different fonts and sizes and the layout is all crazy in the one I actually put together to hand in, but you'll get the general idea.

We do not reformWe replicate$7,000 a year to educate a person$30,000 a year to punish them when the $7,000 education wasn’t adequate$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$How backwards is that??haht si sdrawkcab woHCut the artsCut yourselfResign to a drab gray concrete existenceWithout imagination there is no discoveryWithout art there is no imaginationSilence the musicHack off your armThe play is the thinguntilIts legs are chopped offAnd there is no longer a reason to break themCreate a world with no hopeThen be surprised when we are left with indifferenceWe create prisoners and feign shock when the prisons overflowSpend $1 to teach and $100 to punishThe system is downKill the systemFall so far behind that you think you’re aheadNo child is left behind[When they all are]Lock them up to begin withIt saves timeTime is moneyThe rich become immortalThe poor wink out in an instantTurn a blind eyeIt doesn’t see beauty anymore anywayThat was cut out with the last budgetFuck your budget[From now on, all books will be written in mathematical equations. Shakespeare will now be known as 2x+y=17. Please solve for the meaning of Shakespeare.]Only scientific discovery will merit praiseWe will no longer hear America singing.Sorry Walt WhitmanThe vocal chords are frozen now.Move to the future[forget the past]Make the painter a physicist.Make the actor an architect.Make the cellist a chemist.SACRIFICE YOURSELFBreak a leg.